Need help installing Leopard. Stuck with Gray Screen with looping circle!!!

I currently have Mac OS X 10.2.1 installed in my G4. Never upgrade since i got it. I purchased Leopard and tried to install it.
After I put the DVD in and clicked Install it restarted my computer. Then it started the installation process. 10 minutes later it stopped and said installation failed. Disk is dirty. I finally got the DVD and and tried again but all i got was the gray screen with the looping circle.
I tried re-installing 10.2.1 then try Leopard again. After asking me to restart my computer nothing happen. No installation process. Just a gray screen with the looping circle for over 10 hours. (left it over night)
What should I do? Can this be fixed? How can I install Leopard??????
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get out your Jaguar installer disc and boot from it. After the installer loads and you select your language the menu bar should appear. Select Disk Utility from the File menu. After DU loads select your hard drive from the list on the left then click on the First Aid tab. Click on the Repair Disk button. Wait until the repair process is completed. If any errors are reported that have been fixed, re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported and the disk is pronounced OK. If DU is unable to repair the drive, then you will need something like Disk Warrior or TechTool Pro to repair the drive. Once your drive is properly prepared boot from the Leopard installer DVD. When you get to the point of selecting the destination drive click once on your hard drive then click the Options button. Select the Archive and Install option. Do not select the option to preserve the user folder and network preferences as these may be damaged. Click on the OK button and complete the installation. Be sure to use the same username and password that you use now for the admin account.
Your hard drive will not be erased and your old system will be saved in a Previous System Folder located at the root directory of your hard drive. You should then be able to transfer your personal data from the PSF to the newly installed system.
BTW, repairing permissions will not fix your problem.

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Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME WindowServer[203]: hidd died. Reestablishing connection.
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME WindowServer[203]: Unable to create event queue via hidd: (0x10000003)
Mar 31 16:28:03 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
Mar 31 16:29:52 localhost bootlog[47]: BOOT_TIME: 1364714882 0
Mar 31 16:29:53 localhost mDNSResponder[34]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-258.21 (May 26 2011 14:40:13) starting
Mar 31 16:29:54 localhost configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 16:29:54 NAME configd[13]: setting hostname to "NAME.local"
Mar 31 16:29:54 NAME com.apple.usbmuxd[27]: usbmuxd-296.4 on Dec 21 2012 at 16:11:14, running 64 bit
Mar 31 16:29:56 NAME blued[17]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started
Mar 31 16:29:57 NAME /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[35]: Login Window Application Started
Mar 31 16:29:59 NAME configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 16:30:12: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 31 16:30:12 NAME ntpd[24]: time reset +0.227711 s
Mar 31 16:30:13 NAME loginwindow[35]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Mar 31 16:30:14 NAME WindowServer[61]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:30:14 NAME com.apple.WindowServer[61]: Sun Mar 31 16:30:14 NAME.local WindowServer[61] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:30:21 NAME SecurityAgent[96]: NSSecureTextFieldCell detected a field editor ((null)) that is not a NSTextView subclass designed to work with the cell. Ignoring...
Mar 31 16:30:22 NAME loginwindow[35]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
Mar 31 16:30:22 NAME loginwindow[35]: USER_PROCESS: 35 console
Mar 31 16:30:22 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.divx.agent.postinstall): Unknown key: LimitToSessionType
Mar 31 16:30:22 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
Mar 31 16:30:32 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.apple.mrt.uiagent[124]): Exited with exit code: 255
Mar 31 16:30:35 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[125]): Exited with exit code: 1
Mar 31 16:30:47 NAME mdworker[81]: (Error) SyncInfo: Catalog changed during searchfs too many times -- falling back to fsw search /
Mar 31 16:36:05 NAME mdworker32[158]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:36:22 NAME mdworker32[161]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:36:29 NAME [0x0-0x10010].org.mozilla.firefox[149]: NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
Mar 31 16:39:07 NAME mdworker[157]: Warning: unknown JFIF revision number 0.01
Mar 31 16:39:22 NAME login[182]: USER_PROCESS: 182 ttys000
Mar 31 16:40:34 NAME /System/Library/CoreServices/CCacheServer.app/Contents/MacOS/CCacheServer[132]: No valid tickets, timing out
Mar 31 16:40:35 NAME mdworker[157]: Error, could not create MachMessagePort for com.apple.AddressBook.abd
Mar 31 16:40:37 NAME mdworker[157]: Unable to parse date (<XHTML-STRIPONREPLY>
</XHTML-STRIPONREPLY>)
Mar 31 16:40:38 NAME mdworker[157]: Unable to parse date ( S<XHTML-STRIPONREPLY>
</XHTML-STRIPONREPLY>him to any)
Mar 31 16:40:41: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 1
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 2
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 3
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 4
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 5
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 6
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 7
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 8
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 9
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 10
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 11
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 12
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 13
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 14
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 15
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 16
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 17
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 18
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 19
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 20
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 21
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 22
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 23
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 24
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 25
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 1
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 2
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 3
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 4
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 5
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 6
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 7
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 8
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 9
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 10
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 11
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 12
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 13
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 14
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 15
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 16
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 17
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 18
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 19
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 20
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 21
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 22
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 23
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 24
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 25
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:41:27 NAME mdworker[157]: Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Mar 31 16:41:27 NAME mdworker[157]: JPEG datastream contains no image
Mar 31 16:41:33: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 31 16:41:33 NAME login[182]: DEAD_PROCESS: 182 ttys000
Mar 31 16:41:50 NAME mdworker[156]: iCal.mdimporter: could not parse ICS file: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/OutlookCore.framework/Versions/14/Resources/en.lproj/Timezones.ics
Mar 31 16:41:51 NAME mdworker32[204]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:43:41 NAME [0x0-0x10010].org.mozilla.firefox[149]: NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
Mar 31 17:07:10 NAME firefox[149]: -deltaZ is deprecated for NSEventTypeMagnify. Please use -magnification.
Thanks again- I mean it. It's lousy being stuck away from home when crazy thing happen to your main line of communication!
-Caithris

The gray screen with loading bar issue is a at boot fsck (file system check) that has discovered something wrong with your boot drive/partition and was attempting to fix it.
OS X is booting but can't complete, so that means your hard drive is good, just likely has been either subjected to shock which damaged data on the platters, or bad sectors (the drive is dying if after fixing it, problems occurs again), or something messed something up in the file structure.
Firefox is currently at 19.02, so it appears your background auto-update has not been occurring, which makes me suspect the machine's data is broken in some manner or you have malware on the machine blocking the updates.
Your problems are multiple, in your case I advise a complete erase and install.
1: If you have a backup of your user data on a external storage drive (not TimeMachine as it might be corrupted and compromised with malware it's just going to restore back) then your good, else you have to do this.
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
Copy your data to a blank plain jane external storage drive as you want no executable files on it when you connect to the cleaned machine later.
2: Once your data is safely copied (copy visible files manually and what you know is good, not folders that can contain invisible malware programs!) then disconnect the drive(s)
3: Next assume all writeable media is contaminated with malware and treat as so. Even if you erased it.
4: Stick in your 10.6 install disk and reboot holding the c or option key down. You want Disk Utility and you want to select the ENTIRE internal drive and MUST USE the Security Option > Zero All Data (unless your in the military then use 7x erase, do not use 35x as it will take weeks and is unnecessary)
The Zero/7x erase will do two things, do a low level format and erradicate everything (including hidden stuff and deleted files) also will map off any failing sectors on the hard drive.
5: Follow the procedure here to install 10.6
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
6: Reboot the machine twice, then once you set up the machine (using a alias of course and not allowing registration), use a secured network and IMMEDIATLY Software update to 10.6.8, if you can download the 10.6.8 Combo update on another secure machine to a (new) USB thumb drive and install it on the clean Mac, do that instead.
WiFi security issues, at home and WiFi hotspots
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Still run Software update afterwards as Apple might not have fully updated the combo update yet.
7: Once you machine is secure, download the free ClamXav and run a scan on the external storage drive with just your files, perhaps one or more PDF's or other files are not what they seem to be.
8: Make sure to install fresh copies of software from original sources and not from rewriteable media, update them to be current. Malware can be hidden in copies of programs.
9: Trash all your rewritable media, or use a Linux PC or Linux Mint in a virtual machine (VirtualBox) on another computer like Windows to scrub and reformat all the rewritable media before attaching them to the clean Mac. You have to make sure it's getting the entire media.
10: Once your machine is set back up, then make clones and time and date them.
Most commonly used backup methods
If your still having problems with the machine, it's likley a failing hard drive and you will have to replace it and repeat the steps above pretty much.
Really it's best to replace the drive in the interest of security.
Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's
For performance of Snow Leopard, check out this tip
For Snow Leopard Speed Freaks
Your overseas, if your in a foriegn country you have to assume FinSpy is being installed on your machine (uses a older iTunes verison "update" to get on) or there is other tricks via the ISP to install something on your machine. So mix things up and don't stick any old USB you see laying around into your Mac.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents#/

I mac is snow leopard I bought for 19.99 mountain lion online an my computer has gray screen with the spinning wheel and don't work help me z

My computer I Mac is 10.6.5 I think but the issue was when I update it ask me for version 10.8.5 that was mountain lion wich I bought it for 19.99 Iand know is not working it had a gray screen with spinning wheel I have snow leopard on my iMac I bought mountin lion know the screen I grey I can't do nothing I reboots don't work I inserted the cd for my I Mac don't work can't do nothing I can't remove the cd can someone help me .

To get the CD to eject, hold down the mouse, or if you use it, trackpad, button while you reboot ... keep holding the button down until it ejects. If that doesn't work, this Apple note has some other steps.
See this Apple note on steps to take to deal with the grey screen.
Your iMac needs to be mid-2007 or newer with 2GB minimum memory (4GB+ is recommended) and 8GB or more of available disk space. You also should be at OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard to access the App store and install OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Need help installing Leopard. Stuck with Gray Screen with looping circle!!!

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